My Sophos Evaluation - Or Not!

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:35:24 GMT

I know lots of people who rave about Sophos Anti-Virus. I decided to give it a go in my lab. Both of the servers are firewalled and hardened. Nothing crazy, just some standard stuff which I won't go into here. Anyway, I filled in the evaluation form and downloaded the package. I started the install and was greeted by about a dozen crash/debug requests. Installing the package causes the package to crash! Okey-dokey then. I won't be installing that on our server deployment.

Kaspersky for Business Anti-Virus

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:56:22 GMT

I just did a quick evaluation of Kaspersky's Anti Virus for Business suite. Based on "bang for the buck" I don't think it's up there with AVG. It's got a bit of the "Sinmantec" about it's interface. It doesn't seem well thought out. The agent deployment is a 2 phase process. There's a network agent that must be installed and then you install the anti-virus software.

The price is pretty good though, especially compared to Trend Micro! And Kaspersky's engine does tend to rate very highly on the charts.

I like that it has a dedicated Windows Event log. That'll make monitoring using something like SCOM a heck of a lot easier. However, when I dropped Eicar onto my test agent I was disappointed by the results. It prevented IE from saving the file which was good. It sent details to the central administration server. But there was no event recording this occurrence in either the Kaspersky or the Windows Event Logs.

Aidan Finn: Anti-Malware

My Sophos Evaluation - Or Not!

Kaspersky for Business Anti-Virus